slough
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven "to cut, cleave, split" from Old English -slīfan (as in tōslīfan "to split, split up").
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈslɪvɝ/, SAMPA: /slIv@`/
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- Rhymes: -ɪvə(r)
[edit] Noun
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slough (plural sloughs)
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
- (New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
[edit] Verb
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to slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)
- (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.